Has been a very tiring day to say the least... even frozen ground would be easier to deal with I think lol
OK, I am really curious, how do you use a food dehydrator as an incubator? Glad to hear the chicks look good. You must have caught it quickly before the actual egg temp spiked.Passed by my incubator around 3 this morning, I look over and decided to check the temp... it was 110!!!!.
NO clue how it spiked that high, luckly enough, I have a food dehydrator ( no lamp or heating element) So I turned it down and it went back to below 100 within a min.
I candled, all seem fine.. a few hours ago checked agian, the ones I candled seem to be alive still. THANK GOODNESS..
I have to put my Double blue laced Barnevelders, EE, and Birchen Marans in lockdown tomorrow...
Sure. pm me details and such. If i cant figure it out one of my it guys will be able to
Its a homemade incubator, cabinet, with pvc shelves, the dehydrator sets at the bottom, and you just plug it up and go, it has a dial on the side to turn the temp up or down, it always sets at 99.5 without ANY changes unless I open the incubator up, and then after shutting, the temperature sets back at 99.5 within a minute. no lies. I then put the eggs in a styrofoam bator as my hatcher. I have decent hatch rates. and can incubate up to 200 eggs or more.. I really need to build me automatic turners for it. I only have one turner, the rest I hand turn.
I know, right?! It was great! getting 2000 posts n one thread will be easy for us!
